Excavating Family Secrets with Elly Griffiths and S.V. Berlin

Join us for an evening with Bestselling author Elly Griffiths who will be introducing Manhattan-based British writer S.V. Berlin whose compelling debut novel, The Favourite, is hotly tipped as this season’s one to watch.

Praised as ‘subtle and profoundly touching’ (Isabel Ashdown)

and ‘engaging, subtly comic and stylish’ (Adam Baron), The Favourite is an immersive novel of sibling rivalries and family members behaving badly in stressful situations.

CWA Dagger Award winner Elly Griffiths is author of the Norfolk-based bestsellers Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Stephens & Mephisto novels. Her most recent novel is The Chalk Pit. She has also written under her real name, Domenica de Rosa.

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